In honor of my birth month, introducing some of the issues close to my heart. For the imported, bartered, trafficked children/adults looking for friends on the journey through trauma. https://pseudopompous.medium.com/name-date-of-birth-345443b6c4e2
#adoptees #intercountryadoption #transracialadoption #children #koreanadoption #korea

They could start by not putting up thousands of children for transnational adoption, every year. #Adoption #AdopteeVoices #TransnationalAdoptipn #InternationalAdoption #IntercountryAdoption #ChildTrafficking https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64594469

I am happy a corner will be looked into - I am afraid we think it will solve - everything. Please stay awake, please stay critical, please continue to fight #adoptioncritique #adopteevoices #Adoptionspolitiskforum #transnationaladoption #intercountryadoption

I cannot wait till all their lies are exposed and I can sue the sh*t out of them. #AdopteeVoices #Adoption #TransnationalAdoption #InterCountryAdoption #InternationalAdoption
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/international-adoption-scandal/

#adoption #IntercountryAdoption #TransracialAdoption

Erika Hayasaki’s _Somewhere Sisters_ is a story of two women separated from their mother in Việt Nam and adopted into different families. Keely is the white American adoptive mother of Isabella, twin sister of Hà. Olivia is Keely’s other adoptive daughter, also born in Việt Nam. Hayasaki’s book beautifully balances their stories while centering those of Isabella and Hà. This is how Keely reacted.

#adoption #IntercountryAdoption

“In Red Thread narratives originating in the East, a matchmaker arranged marriages by tying red strings between people who were deemed fated from birth to marry each other. In the West, adoptive parents reinterpreted the plot, which was repeated in internet forums and children’s books targeting adopted children, elevating fate as its central theme, the idea that orphans were predestined to end up with their adoptive parents. +

As someone who is #adopted, filling out #MedicalHistory forms suck, especially when there is no option to check off adopted. And while i did meet the woman who gave birth to me, it’s important to understand that she lives in poverty, and it’s very possible she doesn’t have a medical history. Ơn paper. So even in the #AdopteeVoices community, when we look at #IntercountryAdoption, it’s something to think about.